Great River Studies Reference Guide
Great River Institute is a place of learning and healing where any subject is open for discussion and any problem is welcome for exploration and improvement. This list is a partial compilation of subjects covered in previous lessons, courses and seminars. There are additional and Advanced Application Studies not included in the Studies Reference Guide. Students are also welcome to explore other personal areas of interest as well.
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School of Personalized Studies
All listed material and additional student interests are available for personal study
School of Energetics
Theoretical and Applied Studies in Healing and Universal/Human Energetics
Convergent Healing Method
Level 1: 150 Hours
Level 2: 150 Hours
Level 3: 150 Hours
Level 4: 150 Hours
Reiki Healing Training
Level 1: 16 Hours
Level 2: 16 Hours
Level 3: 60 Hours
The Human Energy System
The Aura
Introduction: 3 Hours
Level 1: 12 Hours
Level 2: 12 Hours
Level 3: 30 Hours
The Chakras
Introduction: 3 Hours
Level 1: 12 Hours
Level 2: 12 Hours
Level 3: 30 Hours
The Meridians
Introduction: 3 Hours
Level 1: 12 Hours
Level 2: 12 Hours
Level 3: 30 Hours
Level 4: 50 Hours
Spirit Releasement
Introduction: 3 Hours
Level 1: 12 Hours
Level 2: 20 Hours
Level 3: 30 Hours
Psychic Phenomena
Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, and Clairaudience
Morphing
Polarity
Yin Yang
Aligning the Symbol to the line of Reason
Multiple Resolution in Macro and Micro Form
Fractals and Holographics
Controlling the Frequency of Opposite Forces
How to Affect the Polarity of Our Situations
Conductivity
Configuring Potential through Responsible Conduct
Conducting the Universal Flow
Creating a Space for the Universal Flow
Synchronicity and Coincidence
Negativity
Recognizing Negativity on a Core Level
Recognizing Negativity in Your Environment
Shielding, Grounding, Passivity and Releasing Negativity
The Power of Negativity
Freedom from Negativity
How Negativity Corrupts
Negativity as the Ground State
Entropy-Nature's Law of Constant Deterioration
Negativity Inside One's Self and Negativity in the Environment
Projection and Reflection
Resistance
Adjusting the Distortion of our Bias
Karma
Revitalization
Creativity and Invention
Complacency
Meditation
Energetic Circuits and Transformation
Mind Over Matter
Kinetics
School of Consciousness
Theoretical and Applied Studies in Understanding Reason, Purpose and Being
Understanding
Matter and Energy: 30 Hours
What is Truth: 6 Hours
What is Love: 6 Hours
The Relativity of Truth and Love: 12 Hours
Experiencing Truth and Love on a Higher Level of Being: 12 Hours
The Seven Fundamental Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth: 103 Hours
Introduction: 3 Hours
Balance: 12 Hours
Adaptability: 12 Hours
Interaction: 12 Hours
Mechanics: 12 Hours
Movement: 12 Hours
Energy: 12 Hours
Harmony: 12 Hours
Integrating the Seven Fundamental Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth: 16 Hours
The Art of Giving: 100 Hours
Giving- The Reason is the Essence of Our Reason for Being
Respect, Appreciation, Gratitude and Value
The Formula for Giving
Running the Loop
What Powers Respect?
Creating a Value that Cannot Be Denied
Knowing and knowing the known, the Known, the unknown and UnKnown: 36 Hours
Reconciling Ourselves to the Known
Understand-ing, Know-ing and No-ing
There's So Much Proof That It's Hard to Believe
Understanding the Inner Nature: 50 Hours
Nature of the Self
Nature of One's Goals
Nature of One's Environment
Nature’s Relationship and the Formula of Success
Balancing Your Self, Your Goals, and Your Environment
Acceptance- Accepting the Moment, Your Nature, the Nature of Others, and the Environment
Ruddering the Path of Righteousness
Why Doesn't Anyone Understand the Part of Me I Can't Explain?
Staying On the Road to Understanding
The Function of Adding and Subtracting in the Process of Understanding
Cross-Relating as a Tool for Understanding
Understanding the Self and self
Understanding the Gravity of our Physical Senses
Science, Art, Music and Literature as Tools for Understanding
Science-Formulas and Their Applications in Everyday Life
Cross Relating as key to Understanding
The Expression of the Inward Impression
Life and Lives’ Experience in the Formation and Development of Understanding
Light’s Radiation and Gravity
Am I Boring You, or Am I Boring You?
States of Being
The Properties of Consciousness
The Nature of a More Conscious Awareness
The Human History
Eternal Awareness
We Are All Creators
Yin Yang and the Basics of Being
Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden
The Moment and Momentum
The Current of Life
The Collective Consciousness
The Over Soul
The Lord as the Center Within
Heaven and the Spiritual World
How Spirit Animates Matters in All Planes of Being
The Holographic Universe
Dreams, Dream Analysis, and the Dream State
Multi-Dimensional Awareness
Altered States
Intuition, Inspiration, Invention and Genius
Self Awareness
Understanding Your Own Eternal Awareness and that of Others
I Don't Do Complaints
Relax and Be Wonderful
Reason and Purpose
Reason and Purpose Defined
What is the Real Reason We Are Here?
What is Your Common Denominator?
Discovering Your Purpose
Living Purposefully
Purpose Fulfillment
What is the Real Reason I Am Here?
Discrimination and Our Purpose
Gaining Control of Your Script
Overcoming Our Dramas to Realize Our Purpose
How True to Your Goals Are You?
Getting in Line With the Will of Self and the Divine Reasoning
Self Will and God's Will
The Responsibility of Training
Responsibility to Our selves and Selves
Response-ability on a Deeper Level
Empowering Our World
Why Be Efficient?
Exercising Our Options
How to Apply Principles in Daily Life
Setting the Parameter of Our Value
Direct and Indirect Control
Waking Up to the World Around Us
Realization and Actualization
Prayer and Meditation: 60 Hours
Meditation as the In Breath
Prayer as the Out Breath
Impression and Expression
Inspiration and Genius
Full Duplex Listening and Talking
Living Your Inner Truth
Sharing Your Inner Love
Chanting: 30 Hours
Alternate States of Being: 36 Hours
Esoteric Arts and Sciences: 120 Hours
Cayce, Gnostic, Hermetic, Kabbalah, Masonic, Shamanism, Self Reliance, Sufism, Swedenborgian, Theosophy, Zen, Experiential
Understanding Religion
Interfaith Practice
The Totality and Embodiment of God Overview: 6 Hours
The Inclusive Perspective
Putting Spirit in Your Life
Atheism and Non-Theistic Reasoning
Philosophy-Eastern and Western: Reconciling to Oneness
Parallel Streams of Consciousness
The Cooperative Efforts of the Founders of Faith
Religions of the World
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Paganism, Shinto, Taoism, Interfaith
Religions' Basic Quest
Getting Lost in the Value and Effects of a Higher Perspective
The Message and the Messenger
Intention: 24 Hours
Intention as a Principle
The Field of Our Intentions
The Difference Between Wishes and Intentions
Wish Fulfillment
Living with Intention
Balance and Harmony as They Relate to Achieving Your Goals
Hopefulness and Expectancy
Improving Efficiency Through the Realization of Intention
God As Consciousness
The God of Everything is in Everything and Everything is in God…Everything!
Principles and Principals
Universal Holographics
Reason for Being
Prayer and Meditation
The Totality and Embodiment of God
Introduction: 3 Hours
Level 1: 150 hours
Level 2: 150 hours
Level 3: 150 hours
Level 4: 150 hours
Archetypes and the Beings Within and Without
Oneness, Twoness and Beyond
Fixation and Contemplation
Essence and the Elixir
The Three Universal Truths
The Three Jewels
The Four Noble Truths
The Eight-Fold Path
The Five Precepts
The Wheel of Life
The Lord as the Center Within
Heaven and Hell
Christ and the Heart
Adam and Eve
The Garden of Eden
Understanding
Truth
Love: Where are you in Love, What are you in Love with, What is it like to be in Love with you, How are you sharing your Love?
Forgiveness
Sincerity
Faith
Responsibility
Compassion
The Before, Now and After Life Aspects of Eternity and the Moment
Yin Yang: Its Dimensionality, Inward and Outward Resolution and the Inclusiveness of Opposites
Energetic Flow Patterns
Breathing
Inner Points of Being
Self and self
The Union Within and Without
Inner Gates and Circuits
Inner Flexibility and Resistance Exercises
Posturing Within and Without
The On-Going Work and Rest
How Creation and Evolution Must All Be True
The Moment, the Current, and the Dwell
Value and the Line of Reason
The Truth in All Things
The Self
Dimensions of the Self: 90 Hours
The Components of the Self
The Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Physical Self/self
Self vs. self (ego); Surrendering yourself to find your Self
Journeying into the Self
Discovering the Nature of One's Self
The Physical Self, the Soul Self and the Divine Self
The Self and its Relationship to God
Balancing Your Self, Your Goals, and Your Environment
Past Life Exploration
The Astrological InfluenceThe Eye is the Window to the Soul
The Answer to Life is in the Palm of Your Hand
Spiritual vs. Physical
Self Reliance
Measure Yourself to Principles Not Situations
Citizenship
Liberation From Our Enslavement
I Have My Reasons for Being Where I'm At
The Effects of Confronting Selfishness
Creating Your Own Definition of Success
Surrender Yourself and You're In the way, Don't Surrender Yourself and You're in the way
Opening Up to Ourselves
The Loop- Freeing Yourself from Your Habits and Limitations
Negativity Inside One's Self and Negativity in the Environment
Nature of the Self, Nature of One's Goals, Nature of One's Environment and Their Relationship to Each Other
Book Study Courses
Bhagavad Gita: 60 Hours
The Secret of the Golden Flower: 60 Hours
Emerson's Self Reliance Essay: 36 Hours
New Testament Book of Mark: 36 Hours
New Testament Book of John: 36 Hours
Tibetan Book of the Dead: 36 Hours
School of Music
Theoretical and Applied Studies in Music Composition and Performance
Music Appreciation
Music Theory
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Advanced
Music Composition
Lyric Writing
Music Arranging
Instrumental Studies
Ensemble Studies
Orchestra
Jazz Band
Small Group
Drum and Percussion
Solo Performance
Vocal Studies
Jazz Studies
Improvisation
Classical Studies
Folk Studies
Latin and African Studies
Conducting
Rehearsal Techniques
Recording
Music Therapy
Living in a Musical World
School of Self Defense
Undergraduate and Advanced Martial Arts Degree Training, Instructor Certification and Specialized Programs.
Jiu Jitsu Martial Arts Studies
Eight Kyu Grade Undergraduate Program: 1000-1200 Hours
8th Kyu White Belt
7th Kyu Yellow Belt
6th Kyu Orange Belt
5th Kyu Green Belt
4th Kyu Blue Belt
3rd Kyu Brown Belt
2nd Kyu Brown Belt
1st Kyu Brown Belt
Advanced Black Belt Degree Program
Shodan, 1st Degree Black Belt
Nidan, 2nd Degree Black Belt
Sandan, 3rd Degree Black Belt
Yondan, 4th Degree Black Belt
Godan, 5th Degree Black Belt
Instructor Training and Certification
Assistant Instructor, Brown Belt Required, Supervised
Instructor, Black Belt Required, 30 Hour Class Study+200 Hour Apprenticeship
Self Defense Seminars and Private Training
Specialized Training Programs
Ki Energy Training and Demonstrations
School of General Studies
Studies in Practical Application
Improvement
Tools and Methods of Improvement - Notetaking, Meditation and Personal Studies
How to be a Student of Improvement
Choosing the Areas and Methods of our Improvement
How to Improve-Fundamental Principles and Application
Improvement Formula
Getting Focus and Direction in our Improvement
Troubleshooting
Choosing Principles that Work
Redefining Your Structure to Support Your Goal
Putting Your Education to Work
Balancing the Major Areas of Our Life
Are You Willing to Adapt to Succeed?
Harmony as it Relates to Achieving Your Goals
Improving Our Understanding Through Awareness
It's Better to Learn Thank to Know and You Don't Have to Know To Learn
How to Learn How to be Comfortable with Not Knowing
Value and the Direction of Our Improvement
Don't Forget to Ask Questions
Obstacles to Achieving Your Goals and How to Overcome Them
How to Improve in Line with Your Goals
How to Choose the Goals that Fit Your Individual Needs and Desires
The Obstacles that Hinder Our Improvement - Negativity and Resistance in Everyday Life Issues
The Characteristics and Value Systems of an Improvement Oriented Individual
The Improvement Formula
The Process of Improvement and the Application of the Process Toward Achieving a Specific Goal
Constant Improvement as a Way of Living
Relationships
Friend or Foe?
Understanding and Improving Your Relationships
Choosing a Mate
Placing a Value on Quality Relationships
Placing a Value on Quality Parent/Child Relationships
Companionship
Premarital Relationship Considerations
Harmony and its Relationship to Successful Living
Balancing Your Self, Your Goals, and Your Environment
Nature of the Self, Nature of One's Goals, Nature of One's Environment and Their Relationship to Each Other
Acceptance- Accepting Your Nature and the Nature of Others
Health/Fitness/Diet
Diet and Nutrition
Overcoming Fatigue
Overcoming Stress
Overcoming Illness
Preventative Maintenance
Nutrition
Physical Fitness Training
Emotional Fitness Training
Mental Fitness Training
Spiritual Fitness Training
Male Sexual Ki
Female Sexual Ki
Energy and Chakras
Facing Death and Winning
Crossing Over From Life to Life
Problem Solving
Standing Up for Change
Measure Yourself to Principles Not Situations
Liberation From Our Enslavement
The Loop-Freeing Yourself from Your Habits and Limitations
Running the Loop
Creating Your Own Definition of Success
The Dynamics of Change
Understanding Engineering and its Applications
Workplace Studies
Crisis Management in the Workplace
Efficiency and Productivity Studies
Process Control in the Corporate Structure
The Purpose of Management
Business Goals and their Realization
Planning and Project Management
Corporate Communications
Understanding Engineering and its Applications
The Use of Parameters in the Art of Instructing
Delegation
Effective Communication
How Negativity Corrupts
Troubleshooting
How Depreciation of Value Creates Negativity Inside One's Self and Negativity in the Environment
Configuring a Solution
Harmony as it Relates to Achieving Your Goals
The Process of Improvement and the Application of the Process Toward Achieving a Specific Goal
Personal Life Management
Crisis Management
Personal Finance
Setting Up Your Personal Space
Buying a Home
Arranging a Conductive Space
Defining Successful Living
A Value System and How it Dictates our Quality of Life
Wilderness Survival
Choosing a College
Career Planning and Development
Putting Your Education to Work